BACKGROUND Hierarchical scales are very useful in clinical practice due to their ability to discriminate precisely between individuals, and the original English version of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale has been shown to contain a hierarchy of items. The purpose of this study was to analyse a Mandarin Chinese translation of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessmen...

In the paper we present detailed analyses of two machine translation systems when applied to documents of a previously unseen domain: agricultural texts from the European Union. The two systems compared are a statistical machine translation (SMT) system using the freely available ISI ReWrite Decoder (Germann, 2003a), and the rule-based machine translation system MATS (Sågvall Hein et al., 2002)...

In the paper we present detailed analyses of two machine translation systems when applied to documents of a previously unseen domain: agricultural texts from the European Union. The two systems compared are a statistical machine translation (SMT) system using the freely available ISI ReWrite Decoder (Germann, 2003a), and the rule-based machine translation system MATS (Sågvall Hein et al., 2002)...

There is an immense gap between the claims of the theoretical linguists as to what the computer must ultimately do in the field of text analysis and translation, and the hard economic facts facing the system designer. A state-of-the-art survey shows the various alternatives proposed in the past, and the state of progress achieved today. The European Community, after having the Systran system ad...

excellence synergic index (esi) is a new method for the excellence measurement. this technique is a causal method. esi method was developed for studying the relations and interaction of excellence criteria and organizational pathology. by “esi”, it is possible to measure the performance excellence of any service enterprises, to diagnosis organizational pathos and to propose problem-solving an...

background: infertility has potentially inappropriate effects on quality of life in infertile couples. various general and specific questionnaires have been structured for assessing different aspects of quality of life in infertile men, women, or couples. the present systematic review was designed to assess these questionnaires and also identify different factors affecting infertile couples bas...